Top 100 Quotes About Dead Man: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Dead Man

#1. Was using "dead-man's-toe" morally okay if the man's relatives had knowingly sold him for parts?

Kim Harrison

#2. In panic, I held
his hand in place. Move another inch, Hunter, and you're a dead man.

Piper Shelly

#3. But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

Aeschylus

#4. A thousand times a coward and not once a dead man

Suad Amiry

#5. She's right, thought Boric. I'm a dead man riding a winged bear named Bubbles.

Robert Kroese

#6. Also, it'd be kinda hard to be together if I was in prison."
"What are you talking about?" Helen asked, suddenly alarmed. "Why would you go to prison?"
"For killing the guy that took your virginity," he replied. "You I would forgive. But the guy? Dead man.

Josephine Angelini

#7. Bram was staring at me in dibelief, as if I were trying to persuade him that his entire existencce as a dead man was simply an incredibly realistic dream.

Lia Habel

#8. No! no! My engagement is with no bride
the worms! the worms expect me! I am a dead man
I have been slain by robbers
my body lies at Wurtzburg
at midnight I am to be buried
the grave is waiting for me
I must keep my appointment!

Washington Irving

#9. A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.

Raymond Chandler

#10. I have a swizzle stick shaped like a little monkey," announced Rose. "Let's help the dead man with his problem.

Seanan McGuire

#11. Are you looking at a dead man now?

Markus Zusak

#12. He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

George R R Martin

#13. It was soon clear to the Raveloe lasses that he would never urge one of them to accept him against her will - quite as if he had heard them declare that they would never marry a dead man come to life again.

George Eliot

#14. April the 4th, 1984.
To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man - greetings!

George Orwell

#15. But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country.

David Hume

#16. A dead man's vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being's pride.

Munia Khan

#17. I have never encountered, not even in witchcraft trials, a dead man whom God or the Devil allowed to climb up from the abyss to erase the evidence of his misdeed - then

Umberto Eco

#18. Only the living have the privilege of saying they'll fight to the last breath, and words like conviction and resolve don't mean much to a dead man.

Raven

#19. What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off with the treasure? How's that?"
"On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. Believe it or don't believe it, Madame. But my feet are tired too. Bloody tired. Like a dead man's.

Jessie Burton

#21. People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man

Lance Armstrong

#22. And upsidedown in the earth a dead man walks upon my soles when I walk.

Bill Knott

#23. It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.

Wilford Woodruff

#24. I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.

Robertson Davies

#25. Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.

Jim Thompson

#26. And without love, one is a dead man on furlough, nothing but a scrap of paper with a few dates and a chance name on it, and we as well die.

Erich Maria Remarque

#27. There's a way to do an acid trip like Harold & Kumar, and there's a way to be on acid. What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that (electric) chair in Dead Man Walking. These are the guys that I look up to.

Shia Labeouf

#28. What were you supposed to do, talking to a hologram of a dead man, when a younger version of that man was still alive? Should you offer condolences?
Jordan decided that really wasn't necessary.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#29. Holy Christ . . . are we talking zombies here?" Church smiled faintly. "We're calling him a 'walker.' Short for 'Dead Man Walking.' The head of my science team has too much of a pop culture sensibility.

Jonathan Maberry

#30. I am a dead man who wanders
registered nowhere

Ingeborg Bachmann

#31. Maximus was cleaning his blade on the dead man's wolfskin. 'You promised him his life,' the Greek said. 'No, I said death was his last worry.' Maximus swung up on to Pale Horse. 'Is that not so for all of us?

Harry Sidebottom

#32. Something dug into the Bloody-Nine's back, but there was no pain. It was a sign. A message in a secret tongue, that only he could understand. It told him where the next dead man was standing.

Joe Abercrombie

#33. Dead man, listen well. The Great Keep is not like the Otherworld. The Great Keep has many names. To the Norse it is Valhalla, Hall of the Lords. To the Greeks it is Olympus. There are as many names as there are men who would speak them.

Kami Garcia

#34. Mercy: "Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet."
Ben: "You killed someone?" Ben asked with interest

Patricia Briggs

#35. At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.

Hans Christian Andersen

#36. The next person that shows my girlfriend a picture of me wearing one of Mom's bras is a dead man!

R.L. Mathewson

#37. There were advantages to being a dead man.

Susan Dennard

#38. Even if the disciples had believed in the resurrection of Jesus, it is doubtful they would have generated any following. So long as the body was interred in the tomb, a Christian movement founded on belief in the resurrection of the dead man would have been an impossible folly.

William Lane Craig

#39. It had been a startling day for young Copperfield: most of the morning confined in an enema-bag carton; his first attempt at flight; his long fall through the weeds; and then sitting on that dead man's face.

John Irving

#40. Weep for a dead man, for he left the light behind; But weep over a fool, for he left intelligence behind.

Anonymous

#41. I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man's chest.

Kristen Hope Mazzola

#42. Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

William Faulkner

#43. But two has never been a number
because it's only an anguish and its shadow,
it's only a guitar where love feels how hopeless it is,
it's the proof of someone else's infinity,
and the walls around a dead man,
and the scourging of a new resurrection that will never end.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#44. Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead.

H.L. Mencken

#45. In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly.

Andrei Makine

#46. I began to doubt that I would ever know the truth of what transpired, or who those people really were. But all that changed one rainy August afternoon, when I was surprised by a dead man who had answers.

James Caskey

#47. The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.

John Ortberg

#48. When the two men were ten yards apart, the Red Viper stopped and called out, "Have they told you who I am?"
Ser Gregor grunted through his breaths. "Some dead man.

George R R Martin

#49. Born down in a dead man's town; The first kick I took was when I hit the ground. You end up like a dog that's been beat too much 'Til you spend half your life just covering up.

Bruce Springsteen

#50. A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.

Robert F. Kennedy

#51. Fifteen men on a dead man's chest - Yo ho ho and a packet of crisps." "Any

Terry Pratchett

#52. Lying on the metal table in front of me was a middle-aged man decked out in absolutely nothing at all. A dead man. Buck-ass naked with his little shriveled junk right there for everyone to see.

Diana Rowland

#53. We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man.

Erich Maria Remarque

#54. I slept all day, face down in the pillow, a comfortable dead-man's float only remotely disturbed by a chill undertow of reality - talk, footsteps, slamming doors - which threaded fitfully through the dark, blood-warm waters of dream.

Donna Tartt

#55. Bravery is the dead man's virtue.

Joe Abercrombie

#56. If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.

Neil Gaiman

#57. Jason Bourne was the name of someone in American military intelligence - a traitor who was shot dead for his crime. When the present Bourne was recruited into Treadstone he was given the name of the dead man.

Eric Van Lustbader

#58. A dead man has no age

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#59. Fledgling designers need investment - but how much easier it is to put them in a dead man or woman's shoes, perhaps also backing the new designer's namesake line, but only as what the French call a 'danseuse,' a plaything.

Suzy Menkes

#60. A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#61. For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man."
To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service."
Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo!

Frank Beddor

#62. It is natural that such a thing as a dead man's scream should give horror, for it is obviously, not a pleasing or ordinary occurrence; but I was used to similar experiences, hence suffered on this occasion only because of a particular circumstance. And,

H.P. Lovecraft

#63. To be alive, to be man alive, to be whole man alive: that is the point. And at its best, the novel, and the novel supremely, can help you. It can help you not to be dead man in life.

D.H. Lawrence

#64. A dead man fell from the sky, landing at my feet with a thud.

Gary Corby

#65. Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.

Louis Gustave Vapereau

#66. I am looking through a lace curtain at a dead man's feet. I am ten years old, the mist is rising on a fall morning in 1944 in Sawyer, Georgia, and I am standing on a front porch painted gray with white trim.

Anne Lovett

#67. Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.

Ellen Terry

#68. A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

W. H. Auden

#69. Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book's full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What's that if it's not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!

Clive Barker

#70. dead man's chest. He needed

Toni Anderson

#71. Should I assume the lure is a certain attractive young dead man?

Rachel Vincent

#72. There is the matter of the girl, niece and heiress to the dead man. She is of great beauty," said Cadfael plainly, asserting his right to recognise and celebrate even the beauty of women, though their enjoyment he had now voluntarily forsworn,

Ellis Peters

#73. Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.

Stevie Smith

#74. Truth or dare ... truth ain't fair.
Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress)

Belinda McBride

#75. When Stacey Curtis found the dead man on the bed, she knew it was time to get her own apartment.

Wendy Clinch

#76. A day without someone to hold you or a day without someone to share, is a day easily forgotten.' - Vera Richardson in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots

D.M. Lee

#77. The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.

Irvine Welsh

#78. So this was how it felt to be a walking dead man. Odd that it did not truly worry him. All was lost the moment he left her side. Nothing else had meaning. (Nicholas)

Stella Marie Alden

#79. You cannot do anything good for a dead man! Whatever goodness you want to do for him, do it when he is alive!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#80. I survived because I had trained my heart to do the same: survive. Becoming an Ironman had kept me from becoming a dead man.

Matt Long

#81. He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

Anthony Horowitz

#82. A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

William Godwin

#83. Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

Mark Twain

#84. Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man's eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.

Charles Spurgeon

#85. So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#86. The normal Christian Life is not supposed to be an exhausting wrestling match with a dead man, but is an abundant, joy-filled life with God, salted with an occasional season of strong resistance from our archenemy.

Kris Vallotton

#87. If I have to go into that good night, I'm goin' gentle; the hell with whoever said not to. That sucker's dead, man, so what did he know? Not even the courage of his convictions.

George Alec Effinger

#88. Julia Woodhull was many things: a lady of secrets, a patriot's niece, and a dead man's daughter. But one thing Julia Woodhull was most certainly not was a fool.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#89. Thomas More once told me: lion or king, never show fear or you are a dead man.

Philippa Gregory

#90. If he were alive, she might come to see his flaws ... but a dead man is perfect.

Rumiko Takahashi

#91. They were certainly a pair. Cincinnati in a dead man's suit, Mother in a dead man's wallet.

Ruta Sepetys

#92. In a throne above them sat a dead man with the head of a wolf. He wore an iron crown and held a leg of lamb in one hand as a king might hold a scepter,

George R R Martin

#93. Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.' This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#94. Angel you may have lucked out this time, but just remember I'm going to be on your ass until I get my revenge. I promise you this will not be the last time you will see me! You're a dead man Medina, maybe not now but soon! - Orlando to Angel under the crumbling furnace in the hotel.

Angel Ramon Medina

#95. For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.

Lord Chesterfield